How is Cold Fusion Expected to Work?
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Cold fusion has been disproven. Only hot fusion has been proven to work. Too bad we are still unable to make a practical power plant that way, but in the lab we can show it produces energy.
If you make a bond and do not later break it, you can have a net energy transfer. That is how fire works. Carbon combines with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and energy. The carbon dioxide can be broken back into carbon and oxygen, but it takes energy, as in a plant using solar energy in photosynthesis.
Fusion would combine two hydrogen atoms to make one helium atom. Sure, we would be making helium and using up hydrogen, but the amount of energy is so high that we would need to use very little hydrogen, far, far less than there is on Earth now. We could generate all the power we could want for millions of years and never even use even 1% of the hydrogen on Earth.
It will never work. It's sombodies pipe dream. You can't have sustainable fusion without the kind of gravity that's on the sun. You can't do that on Earth. Plain and simple.
Newton's laws of physics are "good enough" for most things, such as short space flight, and air plane design, but when you get into more complex physics such as thermo dynamics, or deep astro physics Newtonian laws break down. This is where Einstines laws come into play. According to Einstinien Laws Physics is much more viable and accurate. It allows you to "borrow " energy now, and "pay it back" later. According to Newtons laws of physicics kangaroos can't jump because they can never get enough enitial energy to lift their bodies for the first time... since energy takes the breaking down of matter. This would also mean that birds and insects couldn't fly. Thank goodness Austrailia is filled with kangaroos who can't do Newtonian physics.
It doesn't... from the first "demonstration" in 1989 there has been no duplication of the results... a requirement in science to verify a theory. or even to get a pilot plant built.
Not sure .One guy has claimed to figure it out . Maybe under 100 lbs of pressure or so in a cylinder and maybe a laser and certain radio frequencies with a few atoms of hydrogen it would release a blast not so much as a heat form but more of a force to push the piston . I think everyone is looking for heat when talking about cold fusion when they should be looking at the force then take the force and create heat from that like a wind mill would use the force of the air to turn a turbine then generate electricity .
Take a look at this site http://www.first-molecule.com and read it how he claims to have figured it out . He does have a patent on it
I'm not going to fall into the pathological skepticism about it like i did with the cell phone or the home computer i could be rich like Bill Gates if i didn't listen to all the people saying "Oh that will never work " when there are new inventions coming out all the time creating more ways for other things to work .
Fusion already exists. That's the source of energy for the Sun and for the latest generation of nuclear weapons. Just tell the poor people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the energy release back in 1945 was ZERO.
Most of the energy released by solar fusion is fusing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms.
So, it's not at all a theory. It's a fact. The challenge to using this as an energy source is to do it in a controlled fashion.
And, Newton's "theory" was updated by Einstein's Theory of Relativity. E = mc-squared. This means that matter (m) can be converted to energy (E).
Not at all.
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